Word: cataclysm
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...mere picture of a bison or a woolly rhino tells us nothing much. Suppose, France's Clottes suggests, that 20,000 years from now, after a global cataclysm in which all books perished and the word vanished from the face of the earth, some excavators dig up the shell of a building. It has pointy ogival arches and a long axial hall at the end of which is a painting of a man nailed to a cross. In the absence of written evidence, what could this effigy mean? No more than the bison or rhino on the rock at Chauvet...
...Normandy again to gaze at the beaches they stormed, walk the sunken roads they fought over, mourn at the military cemeteries, but most of all, celebrate their triumph. On the next big anniversary 10 years hence, most of these old soldiers -- and many of those who lived through the cataclysm of World War II -- will be gone...
...them. No one speaks. There is no sound except an eerie musical theme. But these stunned faces are familiar to us. We see them every day on television, in newspaper and magazine photos. They haunt our century. And our anxious imaginings. For these are the faces of those whom cataclysm has inexplicably spared and who must now pass their borrowed time contemplating fate's enigmatic workings...
...case of Fearless, the cataclysm is a plane crash. Among the survivors is Max Klein (Jeff Bridges), an architect. He comes out of that field leading a young boy and cradling a baby in his arms. We learn later that he led others to safety as well, despite the fact that his partner and best friend died horribly just a few feet from him. Max's opposite number is Carla Rodrigo (Rosie Perez), whose baby was wrenched from her arms and killed on impact...
...disaster: now the real tragedy began. Nitric oxides rained from the air, turning the sea to acid. Clouds of soot from incinerated forests darkened the sky, hiding the sun for months. Worldwide, the temperature dropped precipitously, killing off most of the plants and animals that had survived the initial cataclysm. Though some species would linger on for millenniums, the reign of the great reptiles was finally over...